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Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield
$27.99 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Science Masters
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Science Masters
How did a single genesis event create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on Earth, and perhaps on other worlds - into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? This book describes the recent avalanche of discoveries about the universe's fund ...Show more
Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
$28.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of ...Show more
River Out Of Eden by Richard Dawkins
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Science Masters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated informa ...Show more
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Series: Science Masters Ser.
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that D ...Show more
Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
$29.99 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Science Masters
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality se ...Show more
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